The Alchemy NYC Compliance Statement

New York caps how much adult-use cannabis a person can buy at one time. The commonly cited limit is three ounces of flower or 24 grams of concentrate per adult. If you are not sure how a product counts toward that limit, ask the person helping you and they can walk you through it.

Cannabis sold by a licensed New York dispensary has to be tested by a state-permitted laboratory before it reaches the shelf. The testing looks for things like potency, pesticides, heavy metals, microbial contamination, and residual solvents. Every product carries a Certificate of Analysis, which is the lab report behind it. Ask us if you want to see the COA for something you are considering.

Licensed product comes in child-resistant, tamper-evident packaging with the required labels, including the universal cannabis symbol and the standard warnings. Keep cannabis in its original packaging and out of reach of children and pets, especially edibles, which can look like ordinary candy or chocolate to a kid.

New York applies cannabis taxes at checkout, so the total you pay is higher than the pre-tax shelf figure. The exact amount depends on the product and the current tax rules. Your receipt itemizes it.

New York City treats cannabis smoking and vaping much like tobacco under the city's smoking-ban rules. That broadly means no smoking or vaping in parks, on beaches and boardwalks, in playgrounds and pedestrian plazas, on the subway and buses, in transit stations, inside workplaces, or near school entrances. You can use cannabis on private property if the owner allows it, though leases and building rules often say otherwise. Using cannabis in a vehicle is illegal. When in doubt, treat a public space the same way you would treat lighting a cigarette there.

A licensed dispensary appears on the OCM list at cannabis.ny.gov, sells lab-tested product with a Certificate of Analysis, and follows the state's packaging, age-check, and purchase-limit rules. An unlicensed storefront does none of that, and there is no testing record or recourse behind what it sells. If you cannot verify a shop on the state list, treat it as unlicensed.

If you have a question about how we handle compliance, email [email protected]. If you want to raise a concern about any New York dispensary, including ours, OCM is the regulator of record and takes complaints through cannabis.ny.gov.